May 2020 Chuacruz, Guatemala $1400 CAD + Flights Help serve a community in need of improving its educational opportunities by working side by side with local students and their families to improve the infrastructure of the community's school, Instituto Mixto de Educación Básica. Participants will be involved in painting walls and desks, and helping construct a new recreational space, as part of a larger renovation project funded by SOS (including upgrades to classrooms' roofs, windows, doors, and more) This trip will promote solidarity and cross-cultural understanding that will ultimately help reduce poverty and inequality in the world. Each day will be filled with hands-on painting and construction work, playing and sharing with children and cultural excursions. You will learn about local cultural traditions through food, music, testimonies, nature adventures, and visits to colonial towns and historic sites. An integrated opportunity for cultural and Spanish immersion, service and adventure. Itinerary Highlights Include:

• Contribute hands-on support to painting of the education centre, installation of a recreational space, and work with local students and community members to develop community murals
• Build cross-cultural friendships by participating in artistic, recreational, educational, and cultural activities
• Experience the Chuacruz Cultural Festival (May 1st-5th), a small and unique festival to a village, allowing an opportunity for true cultural immersion

Who We Work With SOS works exclusively with registered non governmental organizations (NGOs) in every country we work in to not only ensure the efficiency of our projects, but to ensure our volunteers have the best experience. Partner NGO: SEED Alliance Husband and wife Edil and Sheily created SEED Alliance in 2013. SEED Leaders propose community projects, in which many of them were born and raised in. SEED Alliance and SOS have worked together since 2012 on over 20 community development projects in Guatemala.